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News From Nan is a family-oriented genealogy web portal. The site combines "grandma's" reminiscences, formal genealogy data, and current family news that represents history in the making.

News From Nan serves as both a working family website and a proof-of-concept model of potential interest to family historians, genealogists, and technologists. The site solution features natively produced blogs, family stories, trip journals, and slideshows, as well as repurposed, structured output from GEDCOM (fully linked person pages) and XML/DITA (e-books and PDF files).

The site illustrates a flexible, highly extensible information and technology solution that can make use of a wide variety of applications, tools, platforms, content, and data.

Key technical features used to produce the site include a web service that implements APIs for remote publishing on a CMS platform and a set of scripts that drives the remote publishing process while preserving the original relationships, links, media, and metadata.